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Season 4 of Attack on Titan raises a number of philosophical and moral questions that are central to the show’s themes and plot. The series tackles complex and thought-provoking issues that relate to human nature, morality, ethics, and the nature of war. Here are some of the key philosophical and moral questions posed by season…
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The widespread adoption of ChatGPT and other advanced language models will likely have significant implications for the knowledge worker and the job market. On one hand, these technologies have the potential to increase efficiency and productivity by automating various routine tasks and enabling humans to focus on higher-level, creative work. For example, ChatGPT could be…
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ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI. It is built on top of the transformer architecture and trained on a massive amount of text data from various sources such as books, websites, and forums. The model utilizes a deep neural network with multiple layers to generate text that is coherent and contextually relevant…
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I wanted to play around with word2vec but did not want to use the typical data sets (IMDB, etc.). So, I said, what if I were to do some web scraping of one of my favorite fishkeeping forums and attempt to apply word2vec to find “experts” within the forum. Well, turns out this is a…
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Map Reduce is dead, long live Spark! That’s the impression I, and I think most people attending the conference, walked away with after Strata NY 2014. Most of the interesting presentations were centered on Spark. Only corporate IT presentations about “in progress hadoop implementations” were about Map Reduce. So who’s working on Spark? Cool startups…
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I had a chance to attend Strata in New York back in October. I had been wanting to attend Strata for a few years, but had not had a chance until now. A few impressions: (in the form of brief bullets) It’s huge! (Over 3,000 attendees) Very corporate! (A bit too corporate, too stuffy, seemed like legal departments censored…
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Introduction I recently wrapped up a BI/Data Warehouse implementation project where I was responsible for helping a rapidly expanding international e-commerce company replace their aging BI reporting tool with a new, more flexible solution. The old BI reporting tool was based on a “in-memory” reporting engine, was more of a “departmental solution” than an enterprise-grade…
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend a Big Data round table discussion organized by JNK Securities, a broker-dealer based in NY w/ offices in DC. The attendees seemed to be evenly split between technologists/practitioners and finance professionals hoping to get a pulse on market trends. The conversation was moderated by Atul Chhabra, entrepreneur…
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It has been over a year and half since I took the Cloudera Hadoop Developer Certification course and exam and posted my initial impressions of it on my blog. I have received more comments than I had expected, thank you for reading and sending me comments! There have been a few trends in the comments,…
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Just signed up for node.ph, on April 23rd 2012. Looking forward to learning more about this event-driven framework and how to apply to business challenges. Schedule of events includes Introduction to the event-driven I/O framework that is changing that way we think about developing web applications. Fully loaded Node! Lloyd Hilaiel will explain how to…
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